In a few short years, the sons of God will appear on the scene at the end of this age. There are many signs that have already taken place, but many have not happened as of yet. The rebuilding of the Temple, for example, is a huge sign. Also, the destruction prophesied in the book of Revelation must come, for it will be the setting of the manifestation of the sons of God. Most everyone thinks that the rapture will occur taking all the saints out of the earth. This is not true because several righteous individuals mentioned in Revelation are still on the scene during the Tribulation Period.
These righteous ones are the sons of God who will rise like a phoenix out of the ashes of Mystery Babylon the Great, the present world system. They will come forth in the midst of terrible turmoil and trouble.
As to exactly how these events will come to pass, many mysteries remain. This we do know: they will be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. Their mortal bodies will be swallowed up by their immortal bodies that are reserved for them in heaven, as seen in II Corinthians 4 and 5. Their resurrection will take place, and they will receive a new spiritual body as outlined in I Corinthians 15. And they will stride forth upon this earth as immortal heralds and ambassadors of the soon to fully arrive Kingdom of God. They will do the “greater works.”
When will these things be? The year 2000 on the Roman calendar is here. According to the genealogies in the Bible, it has been roughly 2,000 years since the Savior was born and 4,000 more since Adam was created. That is 6,000 years. We know in our hearts that the time of the Savior’s return is soon. We want to ask, Why hasn’t He come back? 6,000 years of recorded history has elapsed. What is happening?
And some of us think back to 10, 15, 20, and even 30 or more years ago when our flesh was young and soft and our teeth were sound and our hope was strong, and we think, Oh, how our hearts yearned for His kingdom to come to this earth! We did everything in our power to make it happen when we thought it would happen—and yet, it did not come in then. The thousand year reign did not start when the numbers and figures and calculations said that it would.
And this has been a supreme trial for some of us, as it evidently was for the early apostles. They just knew that their time was the time! The Messiah was walking upon this earth! He was doing miracles daily, incredible spiritual feats. They were thinking, Would it not be just a few days when Christ would set up His kingdom by destroying the evil Roman world system and setting us up, along with the Master, as the rulers during His 1,000 year reign of peace?
But they did not savor the things of God. It was not for them to know in their then present spiritual condition “the time or seasons which the Father has put in his own power. But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” They did not understand the timing, as we have not understood the timing for the time of the end. But like a faithful sentinel gives warning in advance, we were given knowledge of impending events to come upon the earth.
Still, the “day is as a 1,000 years” passage just won’t go away. It has been approximately 6,000 years, and still He has not come back. Some say that He could come back tonight. Some say that He has already come back, and we are living in the 1,000 year reign of peace already. The scriptures say that we will not know the day or the hour of His return. It did not say, however, that we could not know the year. {Come to think of it, Noah knew exactly when the flood would come, for God told him, “Yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights…” (Gen 7: 4). And Christ said, “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt. 24: 37). Noah knew!}
I am proposing the following, not as a prophecy, but as something to ponder. The 6,000 year reign of natural man has always been figured from Adam’s creation in 4,004 B.C. What if in God’s eyes the 6,000 year period starts with Adam’s fall instead of Adam’s creation? Where in the Bible does it say that we should calculate every date from Adam’s creation? Should we presume that Adam sinned in his very first year of existence? We do not know for sure when he sinned in the garden, but what if that year was a few years after his creation. What if the year of Adam’s fall is the starting point of sinful man’s 6,000 year span of time on earth. A day is as a thousand years. Six days shall God work with Adam—in Adam’s sinful lost state! There is a 1,000 year sabbath day period of rest coming to this earth. It is prophesied. But when does the six day 6,000 year period end? What if the starting point of the 6,000 year period begins with Adam’s sin?
If, for instance, Adam fell, say, 33 years after his creation by God, then the first 4,000 years ends in the year 29 A. D., which is the time when Adam’s sin was placed upon the Lamb of God’s shoulders on the tree. It was at the death, burial and resurrection that the curse was lifted, empowering Christ, the last Adam, to rise in us. Since that time, only 1,971 years would have elapsed (as of the year 2,000, the year this book was published). In this scenario, we would lack 29 years till the 1,000 -year reign, or 22 years before the Tribulation Period starts. So that would make the date the year 2029.
This is, of course, a supposition at best. No one knows for sure. In fact, it may not be for us to know the year when He is coming back, but He puts that wondering in our hearts. And another thing—it may not be for us all to be alive when He comes back to set up His reign.
The point is this: We need to lay up for His sons that are coming. He said that they are coming, and they shall come forth. We may just have a role to play like the prophets and apostles who saw these things from far off and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims here on this earth. And they laid up for their children and grandchildren the truth of this heavenly city populated by us. They laid up this truth for you and me.
WE are the “heavenly things” that were purified by a greater sacrifice than the blood of animals (Hebrews 9:23). Yes, we are those “heavenly things,” His prodigal sons and daughters. And some of us will be last and some will be first to be revealed to the world.
All this notwithstanding, it is going to be a while yet before He comes back. All the signs are pointing to the prophecies being fulfilled, but there are many things that has to take place, which to expound upon is beyond the scope and space of this book. Nevertheless, we need to occupy till He comes, walking in the vision that He has revealed unto us through the writings of the prophets and apostles—the vision of the soon unveiling of the sons of God.
{To see more about the killer asteroid Apophis predicted by scientists to come perilously close to earth in 2029, just go to youtube and type in “2029.” Scientists discovered this asteroid in 2004, four years after this chapter was written and published.}
Kenneth Wayne Hancock
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